i understand that means you can't sit down with david axelrod and say, okay, we're all going to focus on in can'you wait toee what the obama campaign is doing and copy them and backstop them. >> this has been a big disadvantage for the republican side. i feel bad for our counterparts over there. if you watch the romney campaign, what do yo think mitt ?omney's messa and sateg e' wnus wre crossroads had an ad up about the debt. an ad up about jobs. americans for prosperity was advertising on solyndra. mitt romney was advertising on welfare reform. if you're on the superpac side tr tgureut w the ng g across, yohave no idea. welfare reform, $10 million behind that? seriously? >> the romney campaign has had trouble stays on message, picking a message and sticking with it, which has bn fun. if they couldtick with it, couldn't ty cn'u st choose to backstop whatever the campaign is doing, therefore colluding only in public by the virtue of the fact you were tching tv? >> right, you absolutely could. you know, the truth is, you know, there's an ark of a story that you try to tell. so on our si